In truth, all of the Canadian telecoms are awful, awful, completely vertically integrated companies. They’re our ISPs, they’re our cable television and broadband internet providers, they’re our cellular phone networks, and they own our TV and radio stations. They have an obscene amount of influence over the media we’re soaking in, and control over our means of communicating.
And Bell’s probably the worst of them. But it’s not like it’s not a competitive field in that regard.
Yup, worth noting that the issue isn’t just poor (unreliable and slow) service, but also the integration of data caps. Something that is rare in the US (and I’m assuming in europe?). Basically, on many plans ISPs will limit the amount of data users are allowed to send or receive in a given time (usually it’s per billing cycle, so per month). TO be clear, this is for your home network, not just your cellular data.
Luckily data caps for internet is pretty rare. Data caps for mobile data, though, is ridiculous.
My business pays Rogers $100/month per phone on a BYOP plan for 100MB of data with $15/GB overages.
I just recently bought a personal plan. Decided to get the cheapest one I could, and went with Bells subsidiary Lucky Mobile, and it is still $40/month and I get 1GB of data. At least there’s no overages, as the speed just drops to 128kbps. Still, at $40 it’s basic. No VoLTE, no visual voicemail, no wifi calling, no hot spotting… nothing.
Well, let’s talk about it.
In truth, all of the Canadian telecoms are awful, awful, completely vertically integrated companies. They’re our ISPs, they’re our cable television and broadband internet providers, they’re our cellular phone networks, and they own our TV and radio stations. They have an obscene amount of influence over the media we’re soaking in, and control over our means of communicating.
And Bell’s probably the worst of them. But it’s not like it’s not a competitive field in that regard.
Yup, worth noting that the issue isn’t just poor (unreliable and slow) service, but also the integration of data caps. Something that is rare in the US (and I’m assuming in europe?). Basically, on many plans ISPs will limit the amount of data users are allowed to send or receive in a given time (usually it’s per billing cycle, so per month). TO be clear, this is for your home network, not just your cellular data.
Luckily data caps for internet is pretty rare. Data caps for mobile data, though, is ridiculous.
My business pays Rogers $100/month per phone on a BYOP plan for 100MB of data with $15/GB overages.
I just recently bought a personal plan. Decided to get the cheapest one I could, and went with Bells subsidiary Lucky Mobile, and it is still $40/month and I get 1GB of data. At least there’s no overages, as the speed just drops to 128kbps. Still, at $40 it’s basic. No VoLTE, no visual voicemail, no wifi calling, no hot spotting… nothing.
We get ROBBED here.